police james murdoch specifically approved payouts settling with celebrities particularly has been hacked why the committee was asking has he done that when he now admits that he didn't have full knowledge of what was going on at the news of the world and of course was there a cover up parliament and the police misled about what what's been going on and as how is the police forces relationships with the press how is that how is that come to be as cosy as it appears to be from this scandal at the end of it has to be said that rupert murdoch was very contrite he said he apologized profusely to victims of the phone hacking scandal he said it was an unacceptable invasion into the lives of private people and he accepted that news of the world and. news corp and news international had broken trust with its readers he said he made mistakes and the people he had trusted had been betrayed and it's been another interesting development as well in that this scandal now has

a death to go along with it police found the body of a man called sean hall in his house just on monday he was the first named journalist to allege that his editor at the time andy cool so in other news of the world who later became david cameron the prime minister's director of communications knew all along about the phone hacking and had actively encouraged his journalists to hack into phones now that news has really broken on twitter the twitter r.t. as we call them are going going insane about it really comparing the death of sean hoare to the death of david kelly in two thousand and three but he of course was the u.n. weapons inspector who first cost doubts on the government's claims that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes. those two deaths are being compared widely on twitter and i'll just read a few of the tweets that we've seen comparing these two deaths one says i can't help feeling there must be foul play involved in. sean hoare death much as i

suspected with dr david kelly an uneasy feeling another one says it says everything about the british public paranoia that sean hoare is trending alongside david kelly that shows a deep distrust of all forests in this country and another one anyone else see the similarities in situation between sean hoare and david kelly or is it just me were they pushed or did they jump and in another extraordinary coincidence it turns out that both bodies were found on the eighteenth of july short horse of course just yesterday and dr david kelly in two thousand and three so eighteenth of july a bad day for whistleblowers for all for moral implications of the story rupert murdoch's global the media empire. from the u.s. to journalist shares preserves those in miami very good if you think so bring on the program to laura's report they're wrapping up this side of the atlantic with the scandals already lapping at the shores of the u.s.

two is not with the looking into allegations the phones of nine eleven victims were if that were ever to be proved it would have huge implications your side of the pond too wouldn't. it would be a massive i mean obviously right now it's just a lot of speculation for us and obviously you know i'd kind of like the shawn more than i would caution against turning co-incidence you into. hard evidence right now really what you're seeing mostly is just speculation surely it is true that journalists are like not somebody don't like coincidence and when there's something like a criminal enterprise going on obviously and they're going to be anything having to do with any kind of things around going to sort of a criminal activity so i'm not going to be tied into a right now it's just you know it's kind of a coincidence now this scandal reveals an inherent relationship between politicians police and the papers and britain is it going to be a similar story in the u.s. is it was the same way. in

a lot of ways yeah i mean obviously. the relationship that the british tabloids have with. first of all in the control that they have in england the kind of the level of power that exert is really kind of one president that a lot of times what you get there is. essentially the reason that politicians don't crack down on tabloids and you can't because they fear being put on the front page you get your a little bit more is. more to the more the case that like the thing that i wrote about in a couple of days ago and to do with the fact that rupert murdoch's news corp which owns fox news here a lot of the republican presidential candidates are either paid contributors this year i took a contributors and fox news or their people just sort of turned on during regular guest on fox news so yeah i mean there's certainly something to look into about whether or not news corp will be able to exert sort of a certain amount of pressure and what kind of pressure the exert over certainly

republican politics in this country and obviously you know when you're talking about if you party system does all of the republican politics in general it's able to know how this is going to pan out in the u.k. but no motto was i guess it's not going to be business as usual as far as the mud of industry works in future in the u.s. and the way crucially people work with it. no i think that i think obviously this is sort of this is the end of the sort of you can't really call murdoch's empire infallible but i'm touchable maybe with a better word and this is definitely the end of the untouchable murdoch empire. you know in england they're smelling blood in the water here they're certainly smelling blood in the water and it's not just competitors and you know people who don't like the way that murdoch does business and he has this corporate culture is it's pretty vicious you know i mean it is there's just no doubt about it and so i think that you're going to definitely see

a lot of changes in how. companies perceive how it's dealt with so definitely around to the right about we've only got a few seconds i really want to ask you as well again what about more generally one of the fights going to ban the hearing today but no i don't said that news organizations have to put a stronger emphasis on ethics in the wake of the scandal some will say that's come too late meddlesome media is a global village around the fixations of the scandal big global will of any type of restrictions on the media throw out. i don't know i honestly don't you know i think that there are going to be a lot of questions asked of me over here in the states there are there are always questions about what murdoch's business is do with the wall street journal reports but the new york post reports certainly with fox news reports but yeah i mean you know one of the words that was used today was endemic and murdoch that that was a very strong word and it is a very very strong word because it implies the idea that what's going on within murdoch's organisations are it is

a sort of culture it's not just one or two different people and if that's true then you know friend of mine wrote so rude and so on a couple of days ago she said you know i had smelled really bad on the fish that's pretty good chance that the tail can smell back to you so yeah i would see it spreading around well generations presidents of things feel full as they say in miami tonight on our take thanks very much. israeli commandos of border guards are bound aid ship only approach to the blockaded territory reporting no resistance from activists on boredom the french vessel which is now been taken to the israeli port of ashdod is the last from a ten strong humanitarian flotilla that was prevented from leaving a greek port three weeks ago our correspondent paula slee is across developments for you in israel. just before noon local time today tuesday the friendship which is known as the detail was surrounded by at least three israeli naval ships as it made its way to gaza this is off to the ship and overnight in international waters now we understand that the israeli navy contacted the captain of the ship want him

that if you went any further they would be. breaking israel's blockade on gaza and according to the israeli army they made it quite clear to the ship's captain and the ship's passengers that there were other legal options available to them they're all sixteen people on board the ship ten of them are passengers three of the crew three of them are journalists this is the furthest that any ship so far in this freedom for to the two has been able to go in terms of being able to reach gaza now the israelis are at pains not to see a repeat of what happened last year when you had their feet into the one that incident in which turkish citizens were killed when israeli commandos wanted to because they the mavi marmara and they simply do not want to see that happen again so they added pains to try and see this dealt with peacefully and without any kind of loss of life because many soldiers unable soldiers boarded the ship when it was some seventy kilometers away from gaza and there's no question that the ship was still in international waters it did go off without incident and that ship is in

the israeli port city of ashdod according to the israeli army spokesperson and they have the passengers on board will be dealt with by the israeli immigration police but the question of just how the israeli action is all still remains a very important question there had been at least four separate investigative committees that were set up last to to look at how the israeli soldiers in that. incident how they dealt with that knowledge the new information once consuls found them to quote them that the israeli actions have now. and later this month we do expect the findings of the second u.n. commission that has already indicated that. why finds the israeli blockade on gaza not illegal the israeli soldiers did last year at the when you look at the comments from international legal experts they say that when ships are in the high seas there is something such as the freedom of navigation and as such the israeli

soldiers boarding for ships is in fact illegal oxys policy or they are both mere online tonight from us plus that we have the stories of course we're covering as well as a lot more as well but we just don't have time to give you here but there's so much online for you twenty four seven are calling this story getting a lot of hits charges brought against the parents of an eleven year old russian boy who confessed to attacking a passenger plane with a laser gun find out what authorities are doing to clamp down on a growing and potentially deadly problem. also online from us why a belgian newspapers' copyright with web giant google is seeing the paper's web site removed from internet search results what you think of that story fair unfair tellus intelligible stories you see on our channel at our team dot com. trade energy have fueled talks between the leaders of russia and germany and hand over the demands of europe's biggest economy a growing our russia says it is very capable of meeting those demands bushell's been following the high level meeting. germany's decision to shelter its nuclear

stations has opened opportunities for the likes of russia's gazprom the gas john is hoping to tie up some deals here in hanover which it really sees the german market as a stepping stone to the rest of the european union germany in turn seize opportunities in russia in particular the vast modernization program of russia's infrastructure announced by president dmitry medvedev and given the problems in the rest of the euro zone there are concerns that the european market may not be providing germany with the same opportunities as before nevertheless president medvedev says he's cautiously optimistic about the future of the eurozone he would like to see more currencies come to the fore there is a particular friendship between i'm going to merkel i'm to meet from a better perhaps two of the closest partners on the wall stage and that was very much present here in the talks today president medvedev has been quiz several times about his election opportunities and today he said that he would be making all the

very shortly and which prevent have said they shared common views on the whole middle east situation of course both countries abstained from the u.n. vote authorizing action foreign military intervention in libya some of said it is a little saying you shouldn't even though we thought that the resolution will be implemented that boarding to what it says a no fly zone does not mean of war but actually instead of a no fly zone what we see is an active phase of civil war and some forces are actually supporting one of the parties to the conflict and that's not good in fact for libya is very bad so i think we should continue looking for opportunity to find a peaceful solution to this situation we should use all sorts of mediators and all sorts of opportunities because the libyan problem does not have a military solution which is a reference there to nato submission by several nato states that they are arming libya's rebels and potentially escalating the violence richard vedder and i'm going

to merkel say they're against military resolution of the syrian conflict where violence between government troops and the opposition is growing. daniel bushell our europe correspondent recovery crews working on lifting the doomed ship from the bottom of the volga river have managed to finally bring the vessel upright but they say the operation to raise it might take several more days it's how to play a crucial role in finding out why the ship went down in just three minutes meanwhile police arrested the captain of a vessel that sailed past the pleasure cruiser as it was sinking without stopping to help earlier the director of the firm that rented the boat and the ship's registrar also rest in the morgue area sank in russia's volga river nine days ago killing nearly one hundred thirty people it has become one of russia's worst shipping tragedies vessels like bulgaria continue to cruise russian waterways are to go go right no reports. scenes no one wants to see repeated

russia still in shock over the sinking of the river cruise ship area that killed one hundred twenty nine but the. safety of the rest of russia's ruefully. to see for ourselves we traveled upstream to the city of heroes lovell like the fourth majority of vessels on the river volga this one was built in soviet times and in the last twenty years that's been put into multiple as each one of whom has used that to lead closely most passenger ships to dysmorphic operated the last vessel servicing remote areas are subsidized with tickets gusting as little as fifty cents apiece but tourist craft have to get city funding to there is no money for placements just in the us you can just we are just a small company we could never afford to build our own ships i think with good care the existing ships can be used for another fifty years. the owners and says these

ships have passed the latest technical inspections but so too did the bulgaria and that ships had to create an emergency alarm was partly blame for the high death toll. some are calling for stricter regulations including burying the subletting of old ships the small operators what use could make up on a large respectable company sees that a ship is getting too expensive to repair instead of writing it off they pass it on to a smaller operators and these smaller outfits are often unscrupulous about how they approach maintenance and have no money for autonomy that not everyone agrees. but if we simply start expanding ships we will lose river transport altogether any such measures must go hand in hand with redeveloping the river shipping industry. ruddiman in chino is one of the new cost entrepreneurs this hoping to do just that yet he admits that orders for new vessels have declined dramatically following the economic difficulties of the last few years and. this industry is not going to

pull itself out of the current crisis for that to happen the government must take the first step you mean. no but even if this does happen it will take years for the new ships to come on stream in the meantime passengers on an old ship if they're going to stop using it because of safety. well it can be scanned and everything so i will carry on going on these never would have happened. he writes lawyers is seeking an arrest warrant against a former cia legal director who's allegedly approved drone attacks in pakistan that killed hundreds it is claimed the john rizzo agreed on a list of people to be targeted by drone strikes as a practice started in two thousand and four under the bush administration has talked to fred brown from an american antiwar activists north and get his thoughts about this hi there thanks for being on the program to the layman eight seems

obvious that these attacks are often inaccurate because at the end of the day the people who carry them out of doing so by remote control from the us some claim that only the drone attacks kill as many as fifty norm targeted people for each intended target so how does the u.s. justify using these weapons it's claiming that it's only targeting named people who want to do or into the united states but you're saying the only name fifty six people. out of nineteen hundred people most of whom are unnamed but can you prove that can you prove you sure of your facts see it because yes as you say. the u.s. stands by the father is just a fraction of what activists are saying of the number that have been killed well let me quote to you from reuters on may third two thousand and ten the cia received approval to target

a wider range of target in pakistani tribal areas including war fighters using i didn't think these marine we know u.s. officials. so they acknowledged. that they're killing people they don't even know their names and i'm known targeting criteria they can only name fifty six high level al qaeda leaders they've admitted killing one thousand nine hundred people they simply state they're all militants but most of those they don't even know their names well the inaccuracy some of these drone attacks is sometimes blamed on folder in accurate intelligence i mean theoretically then if there were to be better intelligence would you be happier that these things are used and. if i am not happy with the use of drones to emerge or on armed suspects these are these are people there and that nothing's been proven in fact in the newsweek article that's the basis for this lawsuit they're called suspects what i'm in favor

of is stopping the drone strikes working on economic aid to pakistan. becoming friends with the pakistani people and then working with the police to do actual police work to target if they couldn't find osama bin laden in ten years in pakistan how on earth can they be finding the people they are now claiming to be killing and let me stress one other point the basic justification for this program is that it's protecting america it's necessary for u.s. national security in fact by all the figures that we've seen these drone strikes have been fury of the people of pakistan they've quadrupled the pakistani taliban in numbers and violent attacks they've moved them east into the abbey heartland to the point where they now pose a major threat to the pakistani government the native the pakistani military so much that there's now talk of an anti u.s. military coup on the front page of the new york times and most importantly

according to the u.s. ambassador am better solution real than the wiki leaks cable. we're so the u.s. is so hated now in pakistan the government. freed corporate we're going on safeguarding it's cheerios which of the world's first. experts will tell you the least secure so the result of this. campaign is variously increasing the danger in the united states of the conventional and or nuclear terrorist attack and as you know one more tech. let's concentrate on these drones that we have got a little off a lot of time i want to focus on what you just said they talk about pocket stan relations with america and pakistan of course the u.s. relies very heavily on pakistani intelligence to give the coordinations for all of these drones at the same time as you are saying relations are an old time low i guess it could be argued by some it could be in some officials interest to see the u.s. fail. absolutely

a strong possibility beyond that there's no evidence that these drone strikes are working they're increasingly true to the united states and to the pakistani government. all right fred thanks for the program fred brown from their american antiwar activists north and joining us from santa barbara for another. sport coming up shortly union will bring us the latest on the european host of russia's basketball team find out why a footballer scoring a goal was dubbed disrespectful now though it's coming up to twenty four half minutes past ten muska time cuts have dmitri good business. thanks kevin very much the shadow of debt now extends from washington to the capitals of europe the markets are not panicking but this study drip of bad news is taking its toll politicians are playing a part as e.u. leaders coralie of a greece u.s. lawmakers are in stalemate over the debt ceiling index futures group jack but john

explains what to do. i think that the pessimistic investor needs to still have exposure to the market unfortunately remember a pessimistic investor right now believe it or not has to be counter intuitive one thousand nine hundred thirty two for example soybeans traded at forty four cents a bushel in one nine hundred fifty two they traded at four dollars and fifty cents a bushel this was a conscious effort on the part of the government to inflate or instead of growth and that's exactly what happened we saw a devaluation of the currency so believe it or not a pessimistic investor right now needs to be exposed to commodities needs to be exposed to hard assets so as an individual i think what you have to do is almost bite the bullet and find investments that make sense multinationals of course that have exposure all over the world that are part of this global growth story to more optimistic news now life is getting easier for foreign investors playing on the russian stock market they now have to pay twenty percent capital gains tax for

trading local sheriff's officials say foreigners often concluded deals with russian blue chips outside the country in order to avoid this tax and there's hope the move will help boost liquidity in the market. speaking markets look at how the fairing truth is on the rise as investors wait for ports more of them may show us images decline or seven week we could always also contributing to the gains let's we doubled the two dollars this. u.s. markets actually rallying if you can say that corporate results from i.b.m. coca-cola beating expectations i.b.m. is up five percent this out providing optimism to buses the only concerns remaining now profits of banks. stocks also rebounded from some inflows on the tuesday with positive people don't move in some sectors banks were mostly high after being particularly hit on monday lloyds banking group top gain a four point three percent drop in london. there moscow exchanges also ended the session in the black book more moderately than the others as you can see the r.t.s.

up one percent take a look at some of the main movers on the my successor jimmy. on the rise held by gains in the oil price gazprom is adding almost one percent of us is also waiting for now coming talks in germany. up one point seven percent as it's agreed to acquire energy assets in brazil and that could boost its reserves spike bring home percent financials were grabbing the global rally by the horns p.t.b. up more than two percent and leave out data from gasper bank wraps up today's trip . to be a couple of important results mostly from the point of full sector goldman sachs and bank of america merrill lynch in the us to think what results which would actually look really great for one or more western was patience especially marilyn trauma such as we do what we usually but never the worse that was work so the market reacted neutral on that and basically.

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syrian crisis were also great for the talks so still are going to find a compromise between colonel gadhafi and the rebels while avoiding intervention in syria. now as you've been reporting a gaza bound aid ships been boarded by israeli commandos in international waters last year a similar incident left nine people dead next r.t. is from an activist fall. about why israel feel so threatened by this kind of mission. let me i have a human life sex vest and a few snakes and that israeli who supports the fratellis thank you very much for joining us here on r t v why were you part of the settlement last year and why are you not there. i wasn't there. was it was named the jewish vote in the last year it was a bunch of. i would say five. jews

from all over the world and then another and four israelis. younger. and we came within with jewish message if you want jewish israeli message that we also jews and israelis are not against. are not against the palestinians not about to oppress them we come it's really very few we come to break the siege we acknowledge the situation of the people in gaza we think it's you know we go in more and criminal for first of all the palestinians and secondly for the israelis and this here i'm just not available without food i support it just the same and it carries the same message as without the jewish part that there would be the whole the whole world for. a for peace and. taking down the blockade and how much support is there in israel for the patella i would say almost none.